muck4doo:Rev.K: Odd, I would have thought a better name for Halo was "Incredibly Overrated, Mediocre Console First Person Shooter".

But I guess that's just me.

Consoles have their place. Be nice.

Okay, I will go a little further on this. PC gaming just advances a lot faster than consoles. The last game I bought for PC was Bioshock2(which wasn't great). Currently the only games i play are Morrowind, and a very heavily modded Oblivion. This PC runs Oblivion great. Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ, 4 Gigs RAM, Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT graphics card, and a piece of crap inboard sound card. I installed the mod "quiet feet", and that fixed that problem. People i have seen try to run Oblivion on dual core processors 2.0 GHZ, have problems with that game, even though they have newer and faster computers. The reason why? Oblivion wasn't designed to run on dual core. It will run on one of those processors at 2.0. I'd like to add Skyrim to PC, but can't. It's designed to run on at least dual core, and is more optimal on quad-core. My graphics card will handle it fine, even though it is now pretty outdated. So, in order to play Skyrim, I would need to replace my pc, as it can not be upgraded to multi-core processors. So my solution was just buy it for X-Box for now. I had a ton of fun playing it and DawnGuard in vanilla version, and look forward to when i can buy another pc to play modded versions. Without that console, I would have never been able to play it at all without spending a crap load of money first.

There was a Q*Bert cartoon in the 80s, and I always wondered why Q*Bert could shoot pellets out of his nose when he couldn't in the video game. Now I know why. Also amazing what I remember from age eight.

FTFA: Because 1992′s Wolfenstein 3-D was heavily influenced by the original game, id Software hoped to use the name if it wouldn't be too expensive to license. However, Muse Software had gone out of business in 1987, so the name was no longer protected by copyright and was free to use.

1st year, game manufacturing job.shooter: Battlefield comes in. Tests fantastic.Me to my supervisor: "Look. they travel through time, and they are soldiers. It should be called Time Soldiers."supervisor: "pshaw"

later meeting with Mr. Yasuki: "Battlefield is now named Time Soldiers"both of us:"yes, Mr. Yasuki"

Lee Jackson Beauregard:FTFA: Because 1992′s Wolfenstein 3-D was heavily influenced by the original game, id Software hoped to use the name if it wouldn't be too expensive to license. However, Muse Software had gone out of business in 1987, so the name was no longer protected by copyright and was free to use.

Surely it was trademark rather than copyright.

Yes, it was. You cannot copyright a name, title, or short phrase. That's what trademarks are for. Even if Muse went out of business someone no doubtedly bought their assets which would include trademarks, but they probably either didn't know it was theirs or simply had no desire to protect the trademark.

Ghastly:Lee Jackson Beauregard: FTFA: Because 1992′s Wolfenstein 3-D was heavily influenced by the original game, id Software hoped to use the name if it wouldn't be too expensive to license. However, Muse Software had gone out of business in 1987, so the name was no longer protected by copyright and was free to use.

Surely it was trademark rather than copyright.

Yes, it was. You cannot copyright a name, title, or short phrase. That's what trademarks are for. Even if Muse went out of business someone no doubtedly bought their assets which would include trademarks, but they probably either didn't know it was theirs or simply had no desire to protect the trademark.

rocky_howard:Ghastly: Lee Jackson Beauregard: FTFA: Because 1992′s Wolfenstein 3-D was heavily influenced by the original game, id Software hoped to use the name if it wouldn't be too expensive to license. However, Muse Software had gone out of business in 1987, so the name was no longer protected by copyright and was free to use.

Surely it was trademark rather than copyright.

Yes, it was. You cannot copyright a name, title, or short phrase. That's what trademarks are for. Even if Muse went out of business someone no doubtedly bought their assets which would include trademarks, but they probably either didn't know it was theirs or simply had no desire to protect the trademark.